Meat-holder for slicing-machines.



A. BOND. MEAT HOLDER FOR sucme MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED' NOV- 25. 1912.

Patel med July 27, 1915.

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MEAI HOLDER FOR SLICING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, I9I2.

1,147,928. Patented July 27, 1915.

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A. BOND.

MEAT HOILDER FOR SLICING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1912.

1,147,923. Patented July 27, 1915.

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II J F lj g Mpw Austin Bond AUSTIN Born), on LISCARD ENGLAND.

MEAT-HOLDER FOR SLICING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJuly 2'7, 1915.

Application filedjNovember 25, 1912. Serial No. 733,525

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUs'rIN Born), a subject of the King of Great- Britain, residing at Liscard, in the county of Chester, in the Kingdom of England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat- Holders for slicing Machines, of which the The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the machine from the side at which the feed table is located; Fig. 2, a plan view of the machine; Fig. 3, a vertical section on the lines Z Z of Figs. 1 and 2;. Fig. f is a rear view of an accessory part which is shown in position.

onthe feed table in Fig. 2; Figs. 5' and 6 are a side view and a section respectively of the' feeding device. Fig. 7 is a'plan view of themachine in which the knife is mounted at a slight angle to the gage plate.

The machine is of the type in which a r0- tary disk knife is employed for'cutting the material as it is reciprocated toward and away from the knife, andv is fed forward tloiward the knife after the cutting of each s. cc.

a is a rotary disk knife supported by means of a standard I). v

' c is a bedplate to which the standard 6 is attached.

(1, Figs. 2 and 3 is a metal angle piece attached to the bedplate, whereby it can be clamped to a table or the like.

e is a shaft carrying a crank f mounted on standard b.

f is a crank carryingan operating handle 9, and mounted on shaft 6 preferably by bemg screwed on the threaded end 6' of said shaft e.

71. is a gear wheel keyed on to this shaft. This gear wheel is housed in a recess in standard 6.

i is a pinion gearing into gear wheel 71.. The gear wheel 5 is firmly attached in any convenient manner to the knife (1. preferably by small screws 7', Fig. '1. This pinion 11 is annular, and is seated on a boss is on standard b and-serves as an axle for the support of the knife a.

Z is a central disk, also attached to the knife a, and the pinion i by the aforesaid screws y.

' m is a screw retaining the disk Z and screwed into a threaded opening in disk is. It thus holds the knife a and pinion 11 firmly in position on the boss is, but by'und'oing this screw, these parts can be pulled ofi. The disk Z turns freely about the head of the screw mwhen -the screw m is screwed up i 1 It will be seen from Figs. 1 and 3 that the gear wheels h and c are such as to impart to the knife a a velocity of rotation considerably higher than that imparted to .the shaft 6. I

A flange n is formed on the upper part of standard 7) and extends over the edge of the disk knife a, and serves as a guard for its edge.

0 is an adjustable plate forming a continuation of the flange n. This plate is hinged to the standard I) at the point 0' and is position, but when the plate is forcibly thrown back and has passed the neutral point, it holds the plate in the thrown back position, and has the advantage of then taking up less room on the counter.

9, Figs. 1 and 2, is a vertical plate, which serves both as a guard and as a gage piece to determine the thickness of the slice. 1- is a foundation flange formed in one with the vertical plate. This works between guides 8 8 on the bedplate. These are preferably sloping, and one of them 8' isprovided with a scale to one-sixteenth of an inch or millimeter or other small divisions. The flang r is provided with a pointer t, which cooperates with the scale on the guide 8. a is a bolt mounted in the bedplate 0, and having a winged nut 'v and Washer '11). It will be seen'from Fig. 1 that the vertical plate g extends up to the neighborhood of the edge of the knife (1 so as to support the material while it is being cut, while permitting the slice to fall away on to the base plate a bethree rollers mounted in or on the feed table move the bacon or other material to and fro.

In Fig. 4 is shown a spring catch for holding the feed table in its folded position, suitable for transport. -The catch at one end is hinged to the bedplate by a screw as shown. At the other end it has a slot 2 having a lateral extension at its upper end. 3 is a screw fixed in the bedplate 0, and working in the slot 2. 4 is a spring fixed to the plate 1 at the handle peg 5, and hearing against the shank of screw 3. This spring normally keeps the pin in the little embayment at the top of the slot 2 as shown, but if by means of the handle pin 5 the bottom of the blade 1 is raised until the pin 3 arrives at the parallel portion of the slot 2, the bedplate 00 at once can be brought down parallel with 0.

Figs. 5 and 6 show the feeding device which is worked entirely by hand. In these 7 is a box having a series of pin holes through which pins 8 project. 9 is an internal box carrying pins 8. This box is supplied with a handle 10. A spring pin 11 is arranged on the top of the box 7 so as to engage in perforations in the box 9 for the purpose of locking them, together, either when the pins 8 project or are in the withdrawn position. This pin is attached to a spring 12 fixed at its opposite end to the box 7.

The mode of action is as follows: The two bedplates being in line, a piece ofb'acon is placed on bedplate at. If a three-sixteenth out has to be made, the pointer t is put on the line between 2 and 4: on the scale s. The implement shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is now pressed against the bacon pressing it in turn against the plate g until the spikes 8 enter the bacon. The handle 9 is now rotated, and the bacon holder is reciprocated in .a line parallel with the knife. A sliceis thus cut off, and the knife being preferably sloping slightly causes the slice to fall away slightly so that it does not drag on the knife. The bacon is reciprocated back and again pressed against. the plate 9 and pushed forward again, and so on until the last out possible is made without the lmife coming in contact with the pins 8. The bacon holder is now taken off. The pin 11 lifted, and the two boxes drawn apart, when the last slice of bacon falls off, the two boxes are againplaced together, the pin 11 allowed to fly back into position, and the device is ready for afiixing another piece of bacon.

I declare that what I claim is In a cutting machine of the class described, a holder comprising an outer box portion, an internal box portion positioned within said outer box portion, a handle car: ried by said internal box portion, said outer box portion provided with a plurality of enlarged apertures, said internal box portion provided with a plurality of spurs passing through said enlarged apertures, a spring latch pivotally secured to said outer box portion, said inner' box portion provided with a plurality of apertures, said spring latch provided with a'projecting pin adapted to fit in one of said apertures .formed in .said inner box portion for holding said inner box portion in a set position relative tosaid outer box portion, and sald inner box portion adapted to be drawn within said outer box portion for withdrawing said spurs within said apertures whereby an'ar-I ticle gripped by said spurs will be readily disengaged from said spurs.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name this 13th day of November 1912, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUSTIN BOND.

Witnesses: i

H. WILLIAMS, I-I. WATSON. 

